Gibraltar: Swati Ghate received her third and final WGM norm after defeating Enrique Osuna Vega of Spain in the ninth and penultimate round of the Gibraltar chess meet.

Swati made her first norm in the Czech Open in Pardubidce in 2002 and second at the British championship last year. Incidentally, when ratified, she will be the third Indian woman to become a WGM in less than three weeks — the others being Dronavalli Harika and S. Meenakshi.

Surya Sekhar Ganguly joined top seed GM Nigel Short of England at the top of the table with a crushing victory over GM Jonathan Rowson of Scotland. Both are on seven points, followed by P. Harikrishna and second seed GM Alexei Dreev of Russia, both on 6.5.

Harikrishna managed to hold Dreev with ease, while Tejas Bakre kept his final GM-norm hopes alive after settling for a draw with GM Alexey Kuzmin of Russia.

Kunte and Sandipan played out draws with Scot Paul Motwani and Englishman Peter Wells respectively, while Dibyendu Barua drew with Serbian Bojan Vuckovic.